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Been circumstances in the past in which trade may have contributed to aggregate growth the global economy, or even the u.s. economy, but hurt workers. and we've learned lessons from that. this trade promotion authority, thanks to the work of senator wyden and hatch, reflects some of those lessons. in terms of actually getting a deal done the first trade agreement that we potentially would present under this trade promotion authority would be the transpacific partnership, or tpp. i've spoken to this before but i will just repeat. that 95% of the world's markets are outside our borders. the fast...

>> president obama said that we don't write trade rules, that china will be writing the trade rules. what's your response to that? >> my response is we're the largest economy in the history of the world. every single night, corporations are on television telling us buy this product, buy that product. do you think that as a nation we don't have the capability of saying to those corporations if you want us to buy those products how about manufacturing them here in america and not in china? how about putting our people back to work? one of the reasons the middle class has declined is we have seen...

The president has the unique ability, i think in american politics, the biggest power he has aside from his power in the war making sphere, the power to set the agenda. what agenda do you want to see set starting in the new congress gregsal term. >> where he wants to go. i have had conversations with him in the white house both before this campaign and during this last campaign about what we do with manufacturing. we have seen after 12 years, 11 years of manufacturing job decline in this country, every single year, we have seen almost every month manufacturing job increase, about 500,000 jobs....

It's partly from federal investment. we learned from the auto rescue, it's got to be bipartisan. it's got to be a partnership when ever possible between the federal government and local communities and businesses. i see the president looking that way and going that way, partly enforcing trade rules, partly investing in clean energy in ohio. we are a manufacturing state, of course. it means medical device and so many other kinds of advanced manufacturing. we are moving in that direction well. >> molly, having covered the campaign, what are you expecting to see start be put in the pipeline in te...

This was a great example of what you should do. it was bipartisan. it was the public and government working with the private sector and it was all about the middle class. we did all of those things and that's why we have seen for the first time in ten years, we have seen manufacturing job growth almost every month for the last two years. 500,000 new manufacturing jobs grown in this country. >> does the president win on china issues in ohio? >> the president wins on china because he's been the most aggressive in enforcing trade rules. he's been more aggressive in enforcing trade rules than any ...